research and development in comment and analysis
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile He heads up the Web Science Research Initiative with colleagues from MIT in the US and the University of Southampton in the UK to promote the study of web science and help lay the... [07 Oct 2008]
Outsourcing changes are afoot
Comment This ties in with what we are seeing from our research at Freeform Dynamics. In a recent study we conducted on the outsourcing of software development, we found the propensity to outsource is increasing,... [16 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment Driven by the huge growth in the number of homes with internet access, research shows that up to six million people in the UK participate in illegal file-sharing of films and music each year. In the... [03 Sep 2008]
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment Research has shown repeatedly that organisations rank IT high on their list of business risks. Some 1,200 IT professionals took part in the research. The latest research from Freeform... [12 Aug 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment The CAA exams were tough as was spherical geometry and aerodynamic theory but now I'm planning a lifestyle change, perhaps one day mixing flying private charter flights, occasional research projects... [17 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Gates' chief software architect role is split officially between Ozzie and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Research Labs who is the founder... [24 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile After university studying a computing and operational research degree, he joined NCR in the early days of Unix as a systems engineer. He went on to work for The Instruction Set, a Unix... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Following that Post worked at Stanford Research Institute spin-off Atomic Tangerine in commercialising technology intellectual property from companies and research laboratories. One big... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile In addition to his CIO role at AstraZeneca, Williams is also a member of the IBM Board of Advisors and the Research Board. As AstraZeneca CIO - a role he took up in April 2006 - Williams is responsible... [11 Jun 2008]
Tech innovation goes global
Comment Cities that make the list might be there because of the number of start-ups and tech research labs they host. This group has helped us come up with a list of the 20 cities of worldwide importance in... [03 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment Michael Kanellos is a former editor at large at CNET News.com in San Francisco, where he covered hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry... [03 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment And while the baby boomers tend to question the validity of things, probe and research, generations X and Y see no such requirement. Truth engine... [31 Mar 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment The DOS operating system was bought in by Microsoft, Windows was based on ideas from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center already implemented by Apple, word processing was well established before Word, spreadsheets were... [20 Feb 2008]
From CIO to consultant: One year on
Comment That sounds great from a financial perspective but leaves no time for developing the business, being able to carry out any research or even to do the boring background work like invoicing and accounting. [14 Jan 2008]
Ren Zhengfei
AS Profile An indication of the ambition that Zhengfei has is the $1.1bn Huawei devotes to research and development every year. Huawei was one of the key suppliers to BT's 21CN network... [12 Oct 2007]
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